[Dovecot] Stale imap processes

Pete Slagle list-dovecot at voidcaptain.com
Fri Aug 4 01:59:52 EEST 2006


webbie wrote:

> I have the same problem using rc2 and TLS compiled with "poll" instead 
> of kqueue.
> 
> With only one tbird client, I ended up with 100 processes (ps ax|grep -c 
> imap) after one day or two.
> 
> kill `cat /var/run/dovecot/master.pid` would not kill those processes. I 
> have to do a killall imap.
> 
> b8 does not have this problem.

Just so here as well, but with kqueue, which again suggests that the
issue is not really kqueue.

One way forward may be to consider what changed between b8 and rc2.






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